Departmental Information and Communications Technology

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what IT systems have been in development for use within her Department in the last five years; what the reason for the development of each system was; how much has been spent on the development of each system; and which systems have been subsequently (i) implemented, (ii) terminated prior to implementation and (iii) terminated following implementation;

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which IT systems have been in development for use within her Department in the last three years; what the cost was of each such system; which such systems have been  (a) implemented,  (b) not implemented and  (c) implemented and subsequently terminated.

Jim Knight: holding answer 26 October 2009
	The information is not available in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	The Department for Work and Pensions has a large change portfolio of projects and programmes to implement the Government's Welfare and Pensions reform agenda, to transact business more efficiently and improve customer service. It is not possible to separate out the IT elements of these projects.